Welding and fabrication
Welding shielding gas operating cost
Price approved measured gas flow during arc and pre/post flow.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
gas volume=flow*on-time; cost=volume*unit cost.
Use already-approved measured gas flow. Additional minutes are total across all starts, not minutes per start. No filler, gas mixture or welding procedure recommendation.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Measured approved shielding-gas flow (ft³/hour): Already-approved measured shielding-gas flow; no welding setting recommendation.
- Arc-on minutes in period (minutes): Actual time from logs/calendar/statement, or an explicitly labeled future schedule. Keep the period in arc-on minutes in period consistent with all matching costs/outputs.
- Total pre-flow and post-flow minutes (minutes): TOTAL pre/post-flow minutes across all starts, not minutes per start.
- Gas price (currency/ft³): Matching invoice, quote, statement, bookkeeping record or explicit budget amount for gas price. Use the stated period and exclude amounts already counted in another field. Zero means intentionally excluded/not incurred, not unknown.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Period gas consumption is 1.80 m³ for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Measured approved shielding-gas flow: 31.783200049340 ft³/hour
- Arc-on minutes in period: 100.00 minutes
- Total pre-flow and post-flow minutes: 20.00 minutes
- Gas price: 0.14158423296 currency/ft³
- Period gas consumption
- 1.80 m³
- Period shielding gas cost
- $9.00
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Price approved measured gas flow during arc and pre/post flow.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.